PARENTS’ MOTIVATION AS A PINNACLE TO ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AMONG INSCHOOL ADOLESCENTS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Education plays a vital role in enhancing the level of thinking and standard of living. Educated parents 
transfer the value of education to their children which hitherto affect the aspiration level and achievement of 
the child. The findings of present study and earlier researches supported the notion that parents' education is 
one of the most important factors influencing child's achievement motivation. Highly educated parents have 
greater success in providing their children with the cognitive and language skills that contribute to early 
success in school. The relationship of parents' education to their children's achievement motivation in 
academic area is assisted by parents' beliefs and behaviours. As their children reach the adolescent stage of 
development, they become highly influenced positively or negatively by these actions. This paper sheds light 
on how parents‘ motivation can enhance achievement motivation of In-school Adolescents in Nigeria. 
Attention was focused on concept of adolescence and adolescents, types of parents‘ motivational levels, 
effects of parents‘ motivation on achievement motivation of adolescents and implications of the study findings 
for counselling. It is suggested, therefore, that Professional counsellors should endeavour to help in-school 
adolescents in various schools by organizing seminars that will expose their motivational factors and the 
effects on achievement motivation within the school settings. Counsellors should collaborate with different 
religious organisations in sensitizing parents on numerous strategies that can be employed in motivating 
children‘s schooling appropriately. Steps should be taken to bring awareness in the community about the 
importance of parents‘ involvement in their children‘s education.